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Stater / Double Siglos

Emittent Side
Jahr 460 BC - 430 BC
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Währung Persian siglos
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Aversbeschreibung A large, prominently rendered pomegranate with calyx occupies the lower left field, its globular form in high relief characteristic of the early Sidetan coinage tradition. To the upper right, the forepart of a lion advancing left is depicted in detail, with open jaws and flowing mane rendered in archaic style. Both devices are set within a plain, slightly irregular circular field typical of early Pamphylian hammered issues. The pomegranate serves as the civic badge of Side, a punning emblem referencing the city's name in the local Anatolian language.
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Reversbeschreibung The helmeted head of Athena faces right in high relief, wearing a crested Corinthian helmet with cheekpieces rendered in fine archaic detail. The goddess's facial features display the severe, almond-eyed style characteristic of fifth-century BC Greek coinage. The entire design is set within a deeply recessed incuse square, formed by a single punch strike, which frames the head and creates a sharp contrast between the relief of the obverse and the intaglio treatment of the reverse. The incuse square is a hallmark of early Pamphylian and related Anatolian silver staters of this period.
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Side, a Pamphylian city on the southern Anatolian coast, maintained a remarkably independent monetary policy during the mid-fifth century despite Achaemenid dominance over the region. These staters belong to a period when Side's coinage was already idiosyncratic by Greek standards — the city used its own script, found nowhere else in the ancient world, which remained undeciphered until the twentieth century.

The Atlan series places this type firmly within the earlier phase of Side's archaic coinage, before later civic issues standardized the fabric.

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